Bonds: Prosecutors' Typos Could Compromise Case

Slugger Barry Bonds has submitted court papers complaining his chances for a fair trial could be hurt by typographical errors in a government filing wrongly accusing him of flunking a drug test in 2001.

Baseball's home run king has pleaded not guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice, and is asking a judge to dismiss the case.

In a filing last week opposing Bonds' motion for dismissal, prosecutors referred to a drug test Bonds failed in November 2001.

They later said those were typos, and they meant to reference aNovember 2000 drug test also mentioned in the indictment.

Still, some media outlets reported that the government had procured new evidence proving Bonds had lied to a grand jury about his alleged drug use.

The mistakes were corrected the next day.

But Bonds' lawyers argue in Thursday's filing that the damage was already done.

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